Tag: supply ventilation

  • Ventilating a Home in Cold Weather

    Prime:  prime Subtitle:  You need fresh air, but bringing in cold outdoor air can cause problems Images:  When I woke up Saturday morning, the temperature outdoors was -40 degrees†. The wind chill was -100 degrees! It was just unbelievably, impossibly, inhumanly cold outside. Fortunately, that was on a mountaintop in New Hampshire and not where…

  • Ventilating a Home in Cold Weather

    Prime:  prime Subtitle:  You need fresh air, but bringing in cold outdoor air can cause problems Images:  When I woke up Saturday morning, the temperature outdoors was -40 degrees†. The wind chill was -100 degrees! It was just unbelievably, impossibly, inhumanly cold outside. Fortunately, that was on a mountaintop in New Hampshire and not where…

  • Resistance May NOT Be Futile in the Residential Ventilation Wars

    Subtitle:  The Building Science Corporation has created a ventilation standard to compete against ASHRAE 62.2 Images:  “ASHRAE 62 is the only national consensus standard document there is. Follow 62.2. Resistance is futile.” So said Dr. Max Sherman last summer in a presentation for the Building America Technical Update meeting. (Download pdf official report here.) That…